About four years ago, Lukas Nelson made a life change. He gave up drinking and smoking weed, got in shape, and even earned his pilot’s license. But the singer, songwriter, and guitarist stops short of saying he’s “sober.” “I wouldn’t call it sober completely, because I’ll still do mushrooms. Once …
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When Lukas Nelson issued his album American Romance earlier this summer, it marked the first release under his own name. Up until then, the singer, songwriter, and guitarist fronted the group Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, which eventually went on to back Neil Young for nearly five years. …
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From Jeff Foxworthy and his “You might be a redneck” shtick all the way back to Ray Stevens and his parody songs, rural comedians — dare we call them, “blue collar comics” —have a long association with country music. But few are as in tune with the genre as Dusty …
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Rolling Stone debuts its new podcast Nashville Now, a weekly audio and video production recorded in Nashville that dissects all things country: from the latest news and must-hear songs to the cultural and political issues that are defining the genre today. The first episode looks at Willie Nelson’s subtle but …
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